we're going to take a break for our local stations. we're going to stay with our coverage all through this parade and stand for at least another hour. "world news tonight" with david muir coming up but several local there we so the parade right there. donald trump is still in the white house, as we see the parade start to form there on pennsylvania avenue. he's going to come out to the reviewing stand and enjoy that moment. before the inaugural balls tonight. but he is still in the white house right now. it has been a long y for the president. began, of course, at blair hous stayed there overnight with his family. church at st. john's, before coffee with the president, and then to the capitol, where he was sworn in. we've seen the lunch with congressional leaders. the review of the military. and then, the parade.

president got out a couple of times over the course of this. and now, he will be reviewing them on his first days and first hours in the white house. byron pitts, we're seeing the bands come on. it was a tough choice for many, bands, as well, whether or not to come. >> a number decided to stay away. you look at this image and think, how beautiful, right? all americans love a parade. >> right. >> and so, i would imagine some people are regretting not participating. i think it's one of the -- a congressman said earlier today that, you know, today is about america, not about republican or democrat. and so, this is a -- a joy wous moment. and a beautiful sight about what makes us unique in the world. >> we've seen a lot of that spirit. we've seen so many different signals on this day. we saw the spirit on the mall. amy robach was talking about it earlier. young people coming together from different sides of this election, but coming together to celebrate our democracy.

we've seen some ugliness today, as well. that vandalism, several blocks away from the parade route. we've seen peaceful protest on the parade route. and we've also seen, you know, you talk about the traditions, you talk about a day for coming together, but as you were saying, mark, earlier, what we saw in that inaugural speech was unlike any we've ever seen before. >> absolutely. but george, we also have to think about the protesters. that's american, too. that's apart of being american, as well. that's the civil rights movement. that's the anti-war movement. in the vietnam war era. that's part of who we are as a country. we're seeing the full of america play out today. >> martha raddatz, when we were listening to president obama in his final press conference, he was saying of any kind of squashing of that is one of the things that could drive him back into the political arena, not to run for ything, but to speak out. >> he talked about those as the core values, the things -- that

there's normal policy discuss n discussions, there's normal divisions, but there were certain things he would want to speak out about. and think back to his chicago speech, too, i mean, he really was telling people that it was up to them to change. >> i think, i mean, byron said that it's a joyous moment. it's a joyous moment for a segment in the population, that say, we've arrived. we've finally gotten there. i think for a large other part of the population, this isn't a joyous moment for them. they look at this, they're concerned. they don't know what's going to happen. not even people that voted for hillary clinton, but people, ha minorities or other parts that think, i'm really concerned about how this president is going to operate. it's incumbent on the staff of the white house and donald trump at some point to acknowledge that emotional conflict in the country, in order to deal with it. >> very tough for him to do, terry moran. >> it is, but i do think that there's hope in this moment, because of exactly what matthew

just said, which is -- there are millions upon millions of people who feel incredibly affirmed by this. and many of those people, you went out and talked to them, were almost out of the system. they'd stopped believing it in. i talked to people who hadn't voted in decades, that came out to vote for this guy, and he won. and they're back in the game, as it were. and eight years ago, it was a different group of people who were astonished at the way democracy could work for them. the more people, the better. it's when they check out altogether you have to worry about the country. >> things do swing back and forth. but as a nation, we still -- i was thinking about, when we were watching the demonstrators earlier. dr. king said that the riot is the language of the unheard. there are millions of people that think, this isn't our guy, this doesn't represent them. and so, they may act out in this way. but at the end of the day, history shows, we may swing in one way or the other, but as a

nation, we figure it out. >> that was the message that president obama gave to his supporters in the days after the election. but cokie roberts, what a dramatic swing between the two men. >> a very dramatic swing. and i do think there's this sense of with te the people on part of a lot of voters who elected donald trump. but i think it would be very useful and wise for him to make some symbolic gestures. to go to a mosque and worship there. to have hispanic gathering at the white house. to talk in terms about african-americans where he's not talking about crime-infested inner cities. i think that he just needs to do something so that people who are feeling disaffected feel better. >> radical swing between the people. we have not seen that yet today. and really, the two electorates,

matthew dowd, are also so separated. not really talking to each other in any real way. >> they stopped talking to each other and it wasn't just donald trump. donald trump was a symptom of what's going on. he wasn't a cause of what's going on, though he contributed with some of his language and actions in the course of the company. but this is the problem in america today. our democracy was built on the idea that we put all of our individual biases behind and we come together for the common good. that we sort of sit in a tribe, where we sit in a family, we sit in a community, but we're able to put those things behind and say, we can do what's in the best interest of the country. it's very hard. barack obama got little operation from republicans in the course of his entire presidency. my guess is, donald trump is going to get very little cooperation from democrats. and that's why today we have two dominant political parties dislike and dd and distrusted b majority of the country. >> the new cover of "time" magazine is out, with that image from the end, donald trump's

inaugural. >> that clenched fist, that we have never seen before. >> and you wonder, you know, cokie, you made this point. most inaugurals not remembered at all. lincoln's two inaugurals, john f. kennedy's. you said this was unlike any i wonder which phrases survive and does that image become the iconic one? >> i think that is the iconic one, because it so symbolizes his campaign. his firm stance along with the populous movement that he helped to foster. i think the phrase that stood out to me was when he said, when you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. that was his way of reaching out to, i think, particularly the african-american community, who might have felt disenfranchised.

>> that was one of the new lines. we heard many of the signature lines, byron pitts. that was one of the new lines in the speech. >> yeah, i think many people might have been surprised to have heard that line, that it was inviting, that there is this big tent. but what -- say one thing, but show me. and when you look at his cabinet, right, we mentioned earlier today, there are no hispanics on his cabinet. when you look at his inner circle outside of his family, you don't see much of the diversity of america in that. so, certainly, i think, many people will be encouraged by that line, but what they hear and what they see don't seem to quite match up. >> and cokie, you said, you mentioned some of the things you believe he needs to do, terry moran, i'm not sure he sees it that way. >> i don't think he does. that raised fist is the militant america coming into power. they feel that they have been shut out. not just of power, but of respect. that's something you heard again

and again out there, disrespected by hollywood. disrespected and disserved by washington. disrespected by main stream media. and they're taking it back and that is a militantcy. i don't think that's the kind of emotion that he comes into office with that is going to result in those kinds of compromising gestures or actions. >> and terry and i have both been out over many, many months talking to voters, and it's not just the disrespect, it's that they felt they had no voice at all. and you talk to people over and over and over again, you say, but donald trps promising to bring back manufacturing jobs, do you really believe he can do that, they would say, not necessarily, but at least he tells us. at least he's listening to us. and i think that was the most powerful thing i heard from people, that he gave them hope. >> sorry. and out there just this past week, the way that he has

jawboned, muscled giant american corporations to stop a move to mexico, in the example of carrier in indiana. people out there saying, he has done more for us as a president-elect than the last three presidents did for us. >> but i think it's really important to keep in mind, and if i were in the white house working there, i would be advising donald trump and the people there for this one thing. the people that swung this election to elect donald trump were not for donald trump. they were against hillary clinton. and those voters, 20%, 25% of donald trump's voters didn't think he was qualified to be president and didn't think he had the temperament to be president, and didn't like him, but they voted for him. and that i think is a group of voters that could easily peel off, if his actions, as byron says, i think, are key, if his actions don't match what they think they want in america. >> you bring up the point, they have to see stuff, i would think, relatively quickly. you talked about those who supported donald trump, our poll that just came out this week shows that a majority of americans still, to this day, as

he enters office, don't think he's qualified for the office. he's going to have to demonstrate that in the days and weeks ahead. >> it's not going to be through speeches. it's not going to be through signing proclamations, it's not going to be any of that. it's going to have to be aboun affirmative action, something that changes the nature of relationships that we have with foreign countries, gets us out of a war or gets us in a war that we think needs to happen, it's all in the actions. >> i don't know if she's with us, rebecca jarvis, our chief business correspondent has been watching the markets today. one thing we have seen, since the election of donald trump, is a real rally in the dow jones. we must not have rebecca. sorry for that. you have some news, martha raddatz? >> it looks like general mattis has been confirmed as the defense secretary, first member of the cabinet, of the trump

cabinet to be confirmed. i will tell you that i have known him for many, many years, through many conflicts and he is adored by his troops. he is truly adored. he is a real leader. he is a u.s. marine. he was in fallujah. he is a scholar. i think he owns about 6,000 books. he's the kind of person that remembers everything he's ever read and can throw something back at you that's pertinent to the situation. and he will speak his mind. he also, to me, immediately understood donald trump. in their meet, when we remember that there was all the talk about bringing back waterboarding and bringing back torture and donald trump said that again and again. after his meeting with general mattis, he said, well, you know, general mattis said, you know, sometimes a beer and a cigarette works well. i can just see general mattis in that situation, knowing that it wouldn't work to say to donald

trump, torture's bad, you can't do it, that's not the way to do it. instead, he does his kind of good old boy thing, and got along really well. and i'm telling you, if donald trump never calls him mad dog again, that shows you also how skilled general mattis is to try to get rid of that nickname he hates. he was also called chaos. that's not a bad acronym for him. it's -- the colonel has come up with another outstanding solution. >> terry moran, donald trump was able to come off, time and time again, during the campaign, wouldn't back down on that issue of waterboarding. sometimes we have to do things that are even worse. yet, general mattis crystallizing the scholarship of the last couple of years and he decides to turn off, when he needs to. one of the things we're going to discover in the days and weeks

ahead is, that which of those promises matter most to drm drment one of the things that's irritated him over the course of this transition, any suggestion that mexico is not going to pay for that wall, he goes ballistic. >> he does. that was his signature line, and he says there are ways to force mexico to pay for the wall. either through taxes, tariffs or on remittances. but one of the things that he brings to his now presidential leadership is that you never quite know when he's saying smshgs becau something because he firmly believes it or when he's sayingsosaying so something to shock you or soften the ground for the deal that he wants. he is a very canny -- i'm not sure it's a reasoned, you know, approach, but he has a way of shocking you with what he says, sometimes he means it, sometimes he doesn't. >> and mark updegrove. we know he's a student of richard nixon. we know he's going to hang in the oval office, a note that he

received from richard nixon back in 1987, sent it after his wife watched donald trump on the donahue show and she says a future politician in there, he's in the oval office. one of the things he might be taking from him is president nixon's advisers tried to make use of the fact that sometimes he could be unpredictable. the wideman this heldwild-man t. that could be an as set for a president. >> henry kissinger always said, unpredictability in foreign policy could be a good thing, to keep people guess egg. i think what donald trump needs to do, though, is, he has to have some consistent messages to the american people. we talked about the donald trump that we heard in that inaugural address. and we talked about the donald trump that we heard at the lunche luncheon. more conciliatory, more outgoing. i think the american people are going to have to figure out which donald trump we're dealing with, as far as foreign policy goes, there might be some advantage to unpredictability.

>> we already see him courting some controversy, martha raddatz, as we see the president leaving the white house now. there's eric trump and his wife. ivanka and jar behd th, as well. tiffany, i think, is there. along with barron. they're heading, making their way towards the reviewing stand right now. looks like jared and ivanka's kids have go in for the day, but don jr. and his wife are bringing their kids out, at least some of them. they have five. a lot of young kids in the trump family right now. and as we watch them take their seats, martha, i want to pick up on the thought. it does seem, in some ways, that particularly with china and as you were mentioning earlier, north korea, we could be spoiming fspoim i spoiling for a controversy rather early. >> we talked about the tweets early on, not so long ago, really, that donald trump said north korea just started that it is in the final stages of

developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the u.s. it won't happen. experts will tell you that probably could happen within four, five years. so, what does donald trump do? that is a red line. with iran. he said he would rip up the deal with iran. i -- i don't think that will happen right away, if at all. you heard general mattis, he was the one who said he didn't like that deal much, either, but america, when america makes a promise, she has to keep her promise. we also have the persian gulf. in the persian gulf. we've had iranian boats threatening u.s. ships. donald trump said when the retu iranians circle our beautiful destroyers with our little boats and make gestures to our people, they will be shot out of the water. can also tell you that i doubt anyone in the military, if those are not the rules of engagement, would not follow that order. >> here comes vice president pence and karen pence.

and soon the announcer will tell you that the president is coming out to the reviewing stand, as well. >> he is home. that is his home. that is the first time he's been in there as president. >> best temporary housing in the world. >> exactly. or as others say, the best prison in the world. >> one of the questions going to be is how often he comes back home to trump tower here in new york, because melania and barron will be coming home and staying there at least through the end of the school year. that's becoming the signature gesture of mike pence there, patting his heart, with the emotion. as he greets his supporters and the military there. you know, the thing about the white house, though, matthew dowd, they're going to be out there all morning long. going to stay up late into the night at the inauguration, but the work begins bright and early tomorrow. >> well, actually, it's going on right now. i'm sure there's staff in the white house, manning certain desks, being aware of all the things that are going around in the country and the world, that they may have to respond to tonight, while the ball's going

on, and tomorrow morning. this isn't a five day a week job, as you know, george, and you get off saturday and sunday and you get back to work on monday. tomorrow's a full day. >> particularly because there are so many vacancies, martha raddatz, especially in the national security establishment. a lot of holdovers from the obama administration. >> you will have an acting secretary of state. about 50 people from the obama administration will stay on for this transition. watching them hold there. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states, michael r. pence and mrs. karen pence. >> you know, you think of the world just this week, libya, stealth bombers, bounding an isis training camp. in afghanistan, raids going on right now. they will have to deal with this immediately. >> and here comes the president. president trump and melania.

he will have to deal with this immediately. he resisted the daily intelligence briefings at the beginning of the transition. had harsh words for the intelligence community after they came out with that conclusion that russia hacked the u.s. election. has tried to be a bit more conciliatory in recent days, but even as late as his press conference last week, accused the intelligence community of nazi-like tactics and suggested that the cia director leaked damaging information on him. john karl, the president about to pass you right now? >> he's about to pass just a few feet awayrom me. i'm on the white house north lawn here, right next to this blue walkway. the president and the first lady walking my way. they've been inside the white house. i've seen lights going on and off. i just came out of the west wing, where i saw steve bannon, kellyanne conway, some of the key advisers, all in the white house. some of them for the first time. mr. president, how are you feeling?

>> feeling great, thank you. >> first interview with the president, john! >> there you go. thank you, george. that was a pretty tough question, wasn't it? >> really showed your chops there. i think it was appropriate to the moment and to this day. it is his day. and seems to be enjoying every bit of it, john. >> he is thoroughly enjoying every minute of it. now he's going to walk into that reviewing stand. as we've been talking about, it will be a shorter parade than usual, but he'll love every minute of it. and i'm telling you, george, it was fascinating watching as he was in the white house, visiting much of that building, i mean, he's been here before, of course, with the president now twice, once this morning, and once right after the election in the oval office, but now, he went around and you could tell by the way the lights were going on and off up in the residency of the white house, and here he is, about to be announced.

>> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the 45th president of the united states, donald j. trump and the first lady of the united states, melania trump. >> cokie roberts, he's heard "hail to the chief" a few times now. i bet that never gets old. >> no, i would suspect not, that that never gets old. and one of thehings that he's going to learn is what a privilege it is to have the marine band they are -- they are masterful musicians. and they are there, really, for him, when he needs them, to

play. than is one of the many, many perks of the white house. >> he may be president of the united states, but he's still the dad of a 10-year-old and i love that moment, president walks right by, barron does not look up from, i think, his phone or his video game. >> he's tweeting. >> barron has been playing with his little nieces and nephews in these pictures, too, the babies. it's been very sweet. >> he must be getting a little tired, too. >> well, the parade is fun for the kids. >> there he is with his family. you see behind him, don jr., his daughter. little donnie is 8. they have three other little kids, so, all under the age of 5, tristan, spencer and chloe. wonder what barron is looking at right now. he found a friend.

you can't imagine how his life is going to change over these next years. of course, a big part of the job, cokie roberts, you studied first ladies, is protecting their children from the changes that can come from the white house. >> absolutely. and really it was bill and hillary clinton that started that, when there was a -- some evil press, or comedian , about chelsea, they stopped it. they just put an end to it. they said, she's a 12-year-old, don't do this. and people respected it. and laura and george bush took their cues from that. they were in college, a very dangerous age. and then, the obamas, of course, with young children, raising them in the white house. they were very clear on this. >> let's listen in on the parade. >> announcer: following closely

will be the united states army field band, from our nation's capitao capitol, the army field band. the band was founded in 1946, with a mission to take the story of the army and its soldiers to the grass roots of america. these musicians travel miles around our nation each year, perform more than 500 concerts, for more than 1 million people. they are the military's most traveled band. ♪ >> we're going to see several

bands from the u.s. military. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, enjoy the sounds of the united states military field band. >> following them, the united states military academy, and the army, the about may color guaar guard. and then, right after that, donald trump's hometown is going to be honored. here, the united states army field band. ♪ with us on the reviewing stand? >> i'm still here, just outside of the reviewing stand. it's a little loud, guys, but the army band just passing by, and you mentioned that the nypd emerald society pipes and drums,

we mentioned bag pipes, but they endorsed donald trump, and that's pretty rare for them, because they, in previous years, had endorsed barack obama, but shortly, we're going to see the wounded warrior project, and that will be the first of four veterans groups, we know that veterans groups are near and dear to donald trump's heart. and you will see veterans have a big presence in this parade, george. >> there's the salute from president trump. >> chief of staff of the army with him, a combat veteran in america and elsewhere. he was also at ft. hood, during the last mass shooting there. >> martha, talk a little bit more about the president's support from the military. this came despite the fact that several times during the campaign, he derided our generals. he did seem to have support at the grass roots. >> and i think that's what's key. at the grass roots. you see a lot of enlisted in the

military who support donald trump. you certainly have some more senior people who probably don't. but that doesn't mean they won't follow orders. that doesn't mean that they do not respect him as the commander in chief. because he is the commander in chief now. and that is their job, to defend the constitution. but i think he's grown on many people, too, because he has a general mattis in there, because he has a general kelly now at homeland security. because he has -- because he's shown such respect for the military since being elected. he reached out to so many people during the transition, so many senior officers, so many national security experts, you know, general petraeus went there, others who he sought council from, and talked to them about what they thought needed to happen. >> you know, he's talked about also wanting a plan from the generals in the next 60 days for a new plan to combat isis. do you think it's going to all

that different from what we're seeing now? >> during the debates, he kept say, we're just going to bomb the hell out of isis. i mean, that's pretty much what we've been doing, f a couple of years now. and they've made tremendous progress. we know they're surrounding mosul and moving into mosul to try to take back mosul from isis. syria, that's another question if you are going to get rid of isis completely, you have to do something about syria. >> there we see the emerald society pipes and drums from the city of new york police department. one more point on that, you mentioned syria, martha raddatz, of course, president obama criticized by many for drawing that red line in syria, then failing to attack president assad of syria. basically excluded from the recent actions that, the collusion of russia and president assad and they're calling for peace talks now, on monday. president obama excluded. they've invited a represent from president trump. >> that's a message right out of the gate.

come on and talk to us, come and talk to russia. so, that was a pretty clear message. i'm not sure president obama would have wanted to go to that meeting with russia and assad, however. >> the key test in the early going for putin and trump is whether or not trump, the trpre trump, lifts the sanctions, which kelly ananne conway says intends to. those sanctions put on russia when they seized crimea. it is the number one goal for putin to get out from under those sanctions. >> president obama asked about that the other day, terry, and he said, let's remember, as you just pointed out, why the sanctions were imposed. they were imposed after russia went after crimea. completely separate from nuclear arms reductions, and donald trump also has said, has not

endorsed the sanctions president obama put on after the hacking, not said he will lift them, either. >> right. but he is playing a very dangerous game, many foreign policy people think. he is the third president now, remember, george w. bush looked into putin's soul, the famous reset of barack obama, this is now the third united states president who thinks they can do a new kind of business with vladimir putin. putin has demonstrated that he is a very, very strong character in international relations, and we'll see how donald trump's deal-making works with the guy who is, right now, probably the most effective statesman in the world for his country. >> this is all coming, though, we talked about this a little bit, martha raddatz. this is coming, as there is an active investigation going on by the fbi and the intelligence community into russia's involvement into the election, if there were contacts with the trump campaign. you've got several key senators including john mccain, lindsey graham, other republicans who are taking a much tougher line

on russia than one taken by the president. >> and the president, as you know, just really came around in the past couple of weeks to say russia, indeed, was involved in the hacking, even sort of softened that by saying, others have probably been involved in hacking, as well. as we know, others have been involved in hacking. but in that particular case. people want that looked into. they want to look to see if there was any contact. trump administration sails there absolutely wasn't any contact between his staff and the russians, but they still want some answers. >> one issue that could trip up rex tillerson is exxon's work in russia, and mr. tillerson's refusal to take as hard a line as some of the senators on th committee wanted him t take. >> they asked some very specific questions about that and he seemed to have little information. >> let's turn back to the parade right now. >> announcer: veteran service

organization, founded in 1946. solving the special needs of our members, veterans of the armed forces who have experienced spinal cord injury or disease. let's hear it again for the paralyzed veterans of america organization. and now, ladies and gentlemen, the new york military academy, from cornwall hudson, new york. this historic academy has been named a junior reserve officer training corps, distinctive honors and marching with their cadet's uniforms models after world war i. >> proud moment there for the president. of course, new york military academy is where he attended from 1959 to 1964. in the 1964 yearbook, he was voted ladies man. >> he's got a good, strong salute, i'm just going to say that. he does.

i know bill clinton had a little problem in the beginning with his salute, was criticized. >> perhaps something he learned at the new york military k academy. >> that's probably where he learned it. >> many years agoal. ♪ >> right behind them, i think we have the marist college band from new york, as well. ♪ >> announcer: up next, the e questions tree yan drill team from burlington, kentucky. ranging in age from 9 to 61 years old, some of their members are carrying flags representing the armed service branches of

their fathers and grandfathers. this is their very first inaugural parade. next up, from louisiana, it's the west monroe high school marching band and raiders. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> announcer: next up, the pride of san marcos, texas, these are the texas state university strutters. they were selected as the first u.s. dance team to perform in the people's republic of china. the texas state strutters have also represented texas state university in the ciand the cit marcos on the "america's got talent" program on nbc. the texas state university

strutters are led by tammy fife. next up, you are in for a big treat. it's the talladega college great tornado band and home of the amisted murals. their motto? we'll keep marching on. they've performed for mardi gras in new orleans and nfl football games and for band showcases all across america. the talladega college great tornado band. >> paula faris, that band will keep marching on. coming despite some controrsy. >> all right, george, it's so

loud down here. you mentioned controversy. i'm going to give it one minute. should wait until the brass passes me by, george. >> let's watch. ♪ >> all right, george, i'm hoping you can hear me, because the talladega marching band's story is pretty remarkable. they were really scrutinized and criticized, but this is a historically black college, and the president of the university told me that he was receiving death threats, the students were receiving threats, as well, because they wanted to

participate in this, but dr. hawkins, who is the president of the university, told me earlier this week, he knows in his heart that he made the right decision to bring this marching band from this historically black college in alabama, talladega college, here to the inaugural parade. he said that he consulted with civil rights leaders, he consulted with the board, with s top donor, with the students. and th all wanted to come here. he said, it's sad that people tried to politicize it. people are out for his job. as i mentioned, he's receiving death threats, as well. but he said, this is an opportunity for these students and as a once in a lifetime opportunity for them, and george, remarkable turnout in all of this, they needed to raise $75,000 to perform. they went on a cable channel about a week ago, to try to raise that money, their go fund me page right now stands at $660,000, 10,000 new donors from

around the country, making sure this marching band could perform. that money, according to dr. hawkins, is going to go towards new instruments, uniforms and to scholarships. he said what some people tried to politicize has turned into a blessing for this small college. >> and they got a big smile, a little jig there from president trump, as they went by. no doubt he's heard about their story. knows what they've gone through to get here, as well. up next, the boy scouts. >> announcer: and wrapping out our section one is the boy scouts of america national capital area council. they're carrying stat flags as they entered the union.

representing delaware, pennsylvania, new jersey, georgia, connecticut, massachusetts, maryland, south carolina, new hampshire, virginia and new york. the boy scouts of america. >> martha raddatz, we were talking about rex tillerson, secretary of state nominee, an eagle scout. perhaps his nomination to secretary of state, service on the board of the boy scouts of america. one of the way he's encountered bob gates. >> i was going to say, bob gates has been involved with the boy scouts of america, as well. something they both feelery strongly about and are very proud of. >> announcer: and washington d.c. as the oldest post of the marine corps. >> and here they come. >> announcer: and now, representing the marine corps, the president's own marine band,

in its 54th inaugural appearance. the marine band made its inaugural debut in 1801 for president thomas jefferson. >> that is general robert neller, commandant of the marine corps, also a come want veteran. and i think he's about 8 feet tall with that hat on. >> just 6'6", normally. >> normnormally, and then 8 fee with it on. >> so many perks and privileges come with the office. even your own band. >> there's some incredibly talented musicians in the military. i think people forgot, not only the bands, but you have singers,

you have -- they do entertaining all over the country. they entertain for the troops, they certainly entertain wherever the president wants them to. and i've seen them over in the war zones, been shoved in the back of a couple of blackhawk helicopters with huge tubas going to entertain the troops. >> announcer: united states marine corps is next the marines at reserve training center. up next, we are honored to ha hahave the 1/2 navajo code talkers.

and we are proud to welcome the u.s. border patrol pipes and drums, from washington, d.c. they exit to honor fallen agents. the horses are workhorses, assigned to patrol in the rio grande valley sector in the state of texas. the u.s. border patrol pipes and drums. >> paula faris, we just saw the navajo code talkers. >> george, we mentioned that the veterans were going to have a really big presence in this parade. they were world war ii vets. this is remarkable. so, they were commissioned to break the nazi cold during world war ii. they also created their own language, indecipherable to everyone else, while cracking that nazi code.

♪ >> announcer: this honor guard is comprised of members from the office of field operations and air and marines, honor guards, representing over 60,000 employees in the largest law enforcement agency in the nation. >> customs and border patrol. passing by the president now. and if the president has his way, both with executive orders and with congress, in his plans to beef up enforcement on the border, build a wall. matthew dowd, he's going to be relying on them even more. >> absolutely.

as he's talked about, his signature issue over the entirety of this campaign was, build a wall, and strengthen the border. and it's one of the things in the inaugural address that he specifically mentioned, about the border, so -- i think that's one thing he has to get done. >> this one's for the vice president. >> look at that. >> and he's enjoying it. >> announcer: who perform on the same motorcycles they use in their daily patrol. >> look at them. >> kind of a serious bench there. they have to keep straight.

>> announcer: now, it's time to welcome the culver academy black horse troop and equestrians. >> paula, the vice president looked awful happy when those indianapolis police went by. >> announcer: dating back 104 years. >> yes, hi there, george. you saw that big smile from vice president mike pence. that's because there are three straight acts from his home state of indiana. you just saw the indianapolis metropolitan police motorcycle drill team. they spend months practicing drills. the choreography, 22 officers, you saw them spell out indianapolis. now, you're looking at the black horse troop and equestrians, it's a college prep program, grades 9 through 12. the finale from indiana, look for mike pence. he's going to have a huge smile

on his face once again, because the columbus north high school marching band will be performing. they performed in the 2004 rose parade, the 2006 rose parade, but this also happens to be mike pence's alma mater. >> big day for him. so, you see the alma maters of both mike pence and donald trump. vice president and the president. again, one of the privileges. tom llamas joining us here in the studio. right now, you made the point earlier, and you can see it on the president's face. all through this parade, he's loving it. >> i'm thinking to myself now, george, what an incredible ride for this man. someone who really, so many did not take him seriously at first, you know, corey lewandowski had a moment with you earlier that was so important. he said he thought he wasn't going to make it and he thought maybe even donald trump at some point thought he could never make it, and they got to this

point. it took so long. and you think about everything he family had to endure. everything he had to endure. the criticism. some of the scandals. and just all the hard work, and, to his credit, he really did. he worked hard. he campaigned all over the country. his message, whether you liked it or not, worked for so many voters. and in those final days of the campaign, george, delivering four to five speeches, night after night. he neveraveup. >> never gave up. would give all the speeches, comes with the territory of having a private plane, and always at home in his bed. >> i was thinking about the way he sort of took apart the republican party, the way he campaigned, so unorthodox. you're right. he didn't really do a lot of diner stops. he did what he wanted to do. he would fly in and fly out on that trump force one. but the people loved it. they would see that plane land and go nuts. >> you said, he took apart the republican party. donald trump did show a real skill in finding the weaknesses

of his opponents and jumping right in on them. being president requires a difference skill set. >> well, i think the thing that donald trump did, which was is, he understand the changing landscape of the country, and the republicanparty, long before elected republican officials did, that their party had changed. and that's the skill he needs to bring here. not the insults, not the, i'll come up with a nickname and then tag it on somebody over the course of my presidency. but understanding at a gut level, where the country wants to go, will serve him -- >> that's the question. he took over and recreated the republican party, really it was a takeover of the republican party, recreated it in his own image. they are now, largely, behind him. can he do the same thing with washington as a whole? >> well, i think that's, you know, that's the billion dollar question for the billionaire is, he's got the republicans 90% behind him. but he's got democrats 90% against him. and he's got independents now having moved more against him in the last two months since his election day.

so, he has to figure out a way to bridge to some democrats, but definitely to independents. >> one of the unusual things here, as we see the parade continue, cokie roberts, and this hasn't really happened before, but a president actually lose popularity over the course of the transition. >> well, some of it, i think, was his own tweets, and his own reactions to people, for instance, john lewis, who really is wildly, wildly respected throughout t country. and i think some of it might be a little bit of buyer's remorse, after an election, you get some of that. but his meeting with president obama soon after the election was a high point and there was kind of a hope that that would be what we would see going forward. and it wasn't. and so, i think that he started to lose support as a result of that. the question is, now, is that what comes back and people then

start to support him again? but as matt says, and i couldn't agree more, it's his actions. if he can get stuff done and as terry was saying, he was already hearing from voters, saying, he's already doing stuff. so, if he can get some stuff done, i think it will turn it around pretty quickly. >> and the question is, thinking it's kind of remarkable, he's five hours or so into the presidency, we were promised major actions on monday afternoon, martha raddatz, major actions and executive orders. but i think we can honestly say, despite what's written on the website, despite what he's said, not many of us know what's going to be inside those orders and actions. >> i think we have no idea. you really can't predict. we've heard certain things, but until we see it, until we see those actions and what kind of actions he's going to take, we just won't know. >> tom llamas, you spent so much

time with him over the course of that campaign. when you look back, and we just heard terry and matt talking about immigration, which of the promises do you think, matt, are most to him? he seemed to feed off in the campaign, the ones that would most energize and light up his supporters. >> look, i mean, the wall. that is what got him there in the first place. and he's going to try to build some sort of structure, whether it be a bigger fence, a bigger wall. he is going to do that. i think we're going to see a much tougher immigration policy. i think we're also going to see a much different way, in the way we treat certain nations around the world. i mean, he wants to talk tough. he wants to be tough. and i think the relationship with russia, the reporting is already out there. he wants to build and have a relationship with vladimir putin, and i think,t first, that's going to be one of his first big steps. >> he's really pushed the reset button on all foreign policy, everywhere in the world, not just russia. and it's kind of put people back on their heels. >> it's put people back on their

heels. russia, he said so many good things about putin over the course of this transition. we now know, at least the intelligence community believes, terry moran, that by the end of the campaign, the russias and putin preferred donald trump to hillary clinton. we always knew they didn't like hillary clinton. you have to wonder if they're going to wake up in a few months and say, maybe we should have been careful what we wished for, as well. >> absolutely. i was in moscow last month, and you got that sense. they're ecstatic. don't get me wrong. this was an improvisation on putin's part. i think he started messing around -- >> on both men's part. >> exactly. kind of improvisational dance. but he is a guy that, once he senses vulnerabilities, putin, he pounces. he moves quickly. he saw this opportunity, first to try and do down hillary clinton, and now our intelligence agencies think, elect donald trump. but talking to officials in the kremlin and in the russian senate, they say, we don't

really know this guy. we have hopes, we expect that he will act in certain ways, but we don't really know him. >> a new president, mark updegrove, john f. kennedy found out that nikita khrushchev was a lot tougher than he thought. >> he met with khrushchev shortly into his presidency, and that meeting was very telling for kruhrushchev. he saw in kennedy vulnerability. it emboldened courthouse che ee. it led to the gun mcuban missil crisis. kennedy handled it well, but we were on the brink of nuclear war during the course of that. >> george, i wanted to add something that mark brought up. of all the poll siicies he saidl the plans, he is going to be judged on the unknown events that happen in the world and how he responds to them. >> and that makes me think,

martha raddatz, forhe first time tomorrow morning, he's going to get up, get that presidential daily brief for the first time with those nuclear codes in his hand. >> and it's on him now. that's his responsibility. when he gets those briefings, if he ignored them before, he can't ignore them now. >> it will come tomorrow. for all we know, he's gotten one this afternoon. we don't really know. even when he's enjoying lunch with members of the senate and the house, he wears that responsibility all day long, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, as long as he holds that office, as long as he is commander in chief. it has been quite a day here in washington. the inauguration of donald j. trump. 45th president of the united states, singing along with the ba bands. we have a lot more to get to. for many of you, that's local news. "world news tonight." a special edition of "20/20" tonight. let's leave you with some iconic images of this day.

♪ >> i, donald john trump, do solemnly swear. we will make america proud again. we will make america safe again. and yes, together, we will make america great again. thank you, god bless you. and god bless america. ♪

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